Billy Wilder Quotes
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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The retired L.A.P.D. motor cops who work set security now, all wear the same uniform, they're great guys with great stories, and they're great at their job, providing security on sets.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
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Impostor syndrome, or feeling like a fraud at work, at home, or anywhere else in your life, will probably affect you at some point.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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It makes no difference abroad, The seasons fit the same, The mornings blossom into noons, And split their pods of flame.Wild-flowers kindle in the woods, The brooks brag all the day; No blackbird bates his jargoning For passing Calvary.Auto-da-fé and judgment Are nothing to the bee; His separation from his rose To him seems misery.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
